Dynamic matched filter bank and its application in multi-channel spread spectrum communication systems

A dynamic matched filter bank consists of a plurality of matched filters with either the reference signal for each matched filter changes with the time or the input signal to a matched filter is the received signal modified by a different way for a different matched filter. A receiver employed a set of dynamic matched filter banks in a multi-channel spread spectrum communication system consists of a signal register, a block PN generator, a plurality of spreading sequence generators, a plurality of register arrays, a plurality of multiplier arrays, a plurality of matched filters, a plurality of signal combiners, and a controller. The block PN generator generates a section of PN sequence at the end of every symbol period with feedback logic to shift a block of chips each time. A register array captures each section of PN sequence from the block PN generator and delays it for a symbol period. The rest register arrays are in cascade and delay the section of sequence at each of their inputs by one symbol period. The signal register generates a moving section of the received signal. Each of the multiplier arrays multiplies each moving section of the received signal by a section of PN sequence from either the block PN generator or one of the register arrays to provide a input signal to a corresponding matched filter. Each of the matched filter is to find the correlation between the section of its input signal and the section of its reference signal, which is a spreading sequence from a corresponding spreading sequence generator. Each of the signal combiners will combine the components from corresponding matched filters. The controller will monitor the signals from all matched filters and all signal combiners, extract necessary information, and generate various control signals.